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Ironically, Alicia Boler-Davis, Senior VP Global Connected Customer Experience at GM, recently spoke with Jeremy Hobson from Here and Now before the hacking took place (but just after a more aggressive hacking happened to a Wired editor in a Jeep Cherokee). Here and Now is an NPR program, and Boler-Davis was there to discuss vehicle hacking and whether or not GM vehicles are at risk and how it plans to face the problem moving forward.

Boler-Davis, a seasoned exec with plenty of experience in the spotlight, neatly dodges the question as to whether or not a GM vehicle could be hacked in a similar fashion, but thankfully she does provide some detail into other emerging GM tech like Super Cruise and OnStar Smart Driving Assessment, a new partnership with insurance companies that tracks your driving habits to determine the cost of your insurance plan.

“We allow our customers to opt-in, and we will do a 30-day assessment of their driving habits, and then we’ll have a score based on the performance relative to the aggregated data,” Boler-Davis noted.

Catch all the details on vehicle hacking and Smart Driving Assessment in the full, six-minute interview below.

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